The innovator & God father of the Explosion Deathmatch.
No other wrestler has ever been blown up more times than this man.
Maybe the biggest legend in Deathmatch History. Atsushi Onita.

111 STITCHESAtsushi Onita holds the all time record for the most stitches required after a wrestling matchafter facing his old rival Masashi Aoyagi Exploding Double Hell Barbwire match. Despite having his body deeply sliced by the explode barbwire, Onita won the match.

1,032 STITCHESoverall from his body, Atsushi Onita holds the Guinness Book of World Recordsfor having more stitches than any human being.

The Japanese government would make Atsushi Onita a national spokesman for AIDS awareness due to all the inflected wounds he had suffered throughout the years.

Atsushi Onita would also hold a party to celebrate the accomplishment of over 1,000 stitches.

The hardcore wrestling icon who invented the no-rope barbed wire match as well the exploding one & the founder of FMW (the true originator of hardcore not ECW with all due respect) Atsushi Onita.

Aside from revolutionizing pro wrestling...

Atsushi Onita was a politician. In 2001 he won the 19th House of Councilors election as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party and had a seat in the Japanese Diet. Onita even have a politics Nintendo DS video game named after him, Atsushi Onita's Political Quiz.

However his womanizing way clashed with his political career as he was forced out of politics because of a sex scandal in which he was alleged to have used government accommodations to host a threesome with a pornographic film actress and a female employee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation.